Dan Learns Stuff

Here are a few pictures from back in 2016 showing a picture frame which was the first thing I made using my brand new jig: a miter sled I b...

The Aviary, Pg 404 One of the cocktails hailing from The Office , a speakeasy basement bar underneath The Aviary, this seemed simple to as...

The Aviary, Pg 249 One part of a tiki flight, I was recommended to try this this based on the raspberries. While the recipe as written r...

Plenty has gone on in the past year. Here's a quick rundown: - Learned how to quilt. 104 patches from my tour-guiding days on a lap qu...

Three years ago in July, I completed Dan Boneh's online cryptography course with distinction through Coursera's Cryptography 1 .  Si...

A friend returned from San Diego Comic Con 2018 with an RFID bracelet used to track users in the Amazon Fire TV experience (on Twitter, #Fir...

It turns out that using the convenience function ENCRYPT$ENCRYPT_ONE_RECORD on OpenVMS for AES CBC does something squirrelly.  It will not l...